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Another Freebie from MIT Press: A "Video Book" About Using YouTube as an Educational Tool
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|Last week we posted about this book available to download for free from MIT. This week news of the availability of the first online-only book from MIT Press. From a COHE Article: …MIT Press [has] released Learning From YouTube, a free “video book” that was written by Ms. Juhasz and grew out of her class. […]
Abu Dhabi National Library Joins World Digital Library
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|From an Article in The National (Abu Dhabi): To the outside world, familiar with the UAE for its modern skyscrapers and luxury hotels, rare colour snapshots of the capital taken almost 50 years ago provide a valuable insight into the country’s past. Until now those images, as well as hundreds of other historical documents, could […]
Recently Released: The AFRO-American Newspapers Online Archive, Over One Million Articles Available (Free)
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|From an AFRO-American Newspapers Announcement: The AFRO-American Newspapers, one of the nation’s oldest news organizations dedicated to covering the African American community, has created a comprehensive collection of over a million articles that captures the African American experience in business, civil rights, education, health, law, and sports beginning in the late 19th century. Google partnered […]
From the OLAC Language Resource Page: [The] catalog, developed by the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), provides access to a wealth of information about thousands of languages, including details of text collections, audio recordings, dictionaries, and software, sourced from dozens of digital and traditional archives. (via Twitter)
New Audio, Transcript of MLK Speech
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|From a Wake Forest University News Center Item: In October of 1962, more than ten months before delivering his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. stepped to the podium in Wait Chapel and spoke to a crowd of 2,200. Nearly 50 years later, the public can experience that moment in Wake […]